Biomedical Research Lab

Contact Person: Dr. Marco P. Schoen

Biomedical Engineering at ISU’s MCERC primarily addresses topics in rehabilitation engineering, such as upper body prosthetic device development, signal conditioning of biomedical data, instrument development for acquiring biomedical signals, algorithm development for extracting information from acquired biomedical signals, and controls of prosthetic devices. Some of the current projects are listed below:

Artificial Neural Network (ANN) for Upper Body Motion Recognition: Development of ANN to recognize and project upper body motion based on sEMG measurements in real time.

Biofeedback: electrical and mechanical stimulator for prosthetic hand users. Development of hardware and software to stimulate mechanoreceptors on auxiliary skin surface for feedback of touch, force, shear, pressure, and texture from prosthetic hands.

Motor Point Mapping: development of a motor point map for upper body (arm) sEMG measurement and tens unit stimulation.